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The Improvement Academy has a theory-based approach to improvement that’s practical, tried and tested.

Our Programmes

Improvement Academy has worked collaboratively with patients, clinicians and academics to refine our approach and develop expertise in disciplines that are essential for successful improvement in contemporary healthcare.

Based on Deming’s Principles of Improvement, our flexible approach is applied in partnership with patients, clinicians and academics to tackle the most difficult areas of healthcare improvement.

Achieving Reliable Care for Safety

Achieving Reliable Care for Safety (ARCS) puts the patient and their needs at the heart of delivering good quality, safe patient care. Based on Lean principles, this evidence based intervention is used by frontline teams to bring all aspects of the patient’s plan in one place, improving the coordination of care across the multidisciplinary team.

Applied Research Collaboration

The Improvement Academy is the implementation arm of the NIHR-funded Applied Research Collaboration for Yorkshire and Humber, building on our track record of translating evidence into policy and practice. We aim to maximise the impact of our ARC research and to deliver improved outcomes for patients and the public.

Emergency Care

The Improvement Academy is working with Emergency Department teams across the region to improve patient safety.

Emergency Laparotomy

The aim of the Emergency Laparotomy Collaborative is to improve the safety and quality of the care delivered to adults undergoing an emergency bowel surgery within our region.

Lightening the Load

Our ‘Lightening the load’ offer aimed to improve staff morale and relationships, and was launched through our ‘Beyond Demoralised’ report (Jan 2022). This work has now completed, and key learning has been summarised into our ‘Facing up to tough realities’ publication. Both documents can be downloaded from here.

Managing Deterioration Safety Improvement Programme

Here in Yorkshire & Humber we have a work stream focused on improving safety in care homes. We are testing interventions that can help with early recognition of deterioration, response and communication in care homes.

Maternal and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme (MatNeoSIP)

The overall aim of the Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme (MatNeoSIP) is to reduce the rate of preterm births (from 8% to 6%) and reduce the rate of stillbirths, neonatal deaths and brain injuries occurring during or soon after birth by 50% by 2025.

Medicine Safety Improvement Programme

The Medicines Safety Improvement Programme (MedSIP) aims to reduce severe avoidable medication-related harm by 50% by 2024. This is in line with the third WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm.

Mental Health Mortality Review Programme

The Improvement Academy provides on-site and/or virtual training for organisations wishing to use Structured Judgement Review methods in mental health or community settings. Training is delivered in a ‘train the trainer’ format to ensure sustainability across the organisation.

Mental Health Safety Improvement Programme

The work aims to improve safety by reducing harm to people who use mental health services. By using a quality improvement approach and through co-design with staff and service users to reduce the use of restrictive practice (physical restraint, seclusion, rapid tranquilisation) on inpatient areas.

Patient Experience Toolkit + (PET+)

The Patient Experience Toolkit (PET+) is an evidence-based approach to enhancing patient experience developed through research led by the Yorkshire Quality and Safety Research Group. The toolkit is a facilitator’s guide to listening to patients, and the frontline teams who deliver their care, and how to use improvement and engagement methods to support positive changes.

Patient Safety Collaborative

Patient Safety Collaboratives were established in 2014 to address the recommendations in the Berwick report, ‘A promise to learn – a commitment to act’. The Y&H PSC is one of 15 PSCs across England aiming to: Create safer systems of care, Create a culture of safety, learn from errors and excellence, Reduce avoidable harm and variation and Share learning.

Structured Judgement Review Programme

The aim of the Emergency Laparotomy Collaborative is to improve the safety and quality of the care delivered to adults undergoing an emergency bowel surgery within our region.

System Safety Improvement Programme

This priority area aims to create optimal conditions for patient safety improvement across Y&H. It has 2 main objectives: To mobilise effective ICS level Patient Safety Improvement Networks and to support the national adoption of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) with fidelity to core principles across all our NHS providers.

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Programmes

Our programmes use evidence-based interventions contextualised to complement what is already happening in our partner organisations. We use principles and expertise that both engage frontline staff, and yet also deliver outcomes at an organisational or system level. Learn More

Courses, Training & Events

Our Improvement Academy training courses, both virtual and online, focus on helping health and care staff to improve the safety and quality of care in everyday practice. We are based mainly in Yorkshire but through our virtual platform can support healthcare teams across the UK. Learn More

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